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Hi Lynne, Popped into Harry Smiths yesterday and chatted to an eldery gent - Mr Smith! He is the father of Amanda who currently works there, and who you presumably chatted to. He was saying he was one of the last Smith directors of Smith & Pepper - now the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter It...

One of my colleagues is a Warder at Winson Green - he is now off the Wings and in the office receiving new clients, etc - based in the remains of All Saints! He does the trip every day between the two - Think he prefers the Prison rather than the paperwork!

It's not looking too bad for modern construction. Just wish they'd finish the bottom of Snow Hill though! Had my first trip Snow Hill - Marylebone last Weds. Made a change from going NS-Euston (though I came back that way for speed!) How Bordesley has changed!! and nice to pass right by Wembly...

Superb little trip! Walked that many a time in 1971/2, first undertaking mtce at Hockley Signal Box, and later to remove all the cabling after the line was closed.

Hi Rosie, Very cold and blustery here today with showers. Brave of you to tackle WL - braver than me anyway!!!! B 1684 John Napper 1861 Selina Yapp 1899 Mary Jane Lawley 1919 George Lawley 1928 Alfred Walker 1929 After WW1 they appear to be reclaiming and reselling graves all over the...

And of course Robert William dale is buried in our own key Hill cemetery - section K!

Hi bev try emailing wittoncem@birmingham.gov.uk They will probably be in a Council cemetery - just have to try them all one at a time. No sign of them in Key Hill or Warstone lane. Brian

Nice one Dave - many thanks to Donald - Terrible thing to live with but good he still remembers them. Brian

Interesting about being a candidate for B'ham cathedral - just too far from city centre? That may well have saved it had it been chosen!

Hi Rosie, Lots of bulbs showing through now, and many daffs in bloom! Pity Mr Rosie never had his pic taken whilst visiting - be great to see what it looked like! The 'Huge Angel' was presumably a little more uphill of where it now lies? Lost the power of flight! Pam, You have to remember that...

Hi Wendy, I always remember my folders when I get home - but they disappear before I get back to the Cemeteries! My current KH folderstill has a damp & waterlogged cover because it rained in the night before I went back for it last occasion! Pherhaps the McKnights were canny and having a foot...

Rosie, I think yours are safe - Your Gt Gt Grandad is probably leaning against the back wall, Either having a fag, or waiting for some little old lady to walk by.......? As you go uphill, you will see there is a space between the back wall of Publics and the Wall of the Mint - good place to put...

WL site of P 1582 marked by folder - 2nd row in from wall. 5 years ago this area was an inpenetrable jungle of trees, brambles, etc. Still requires tidying but a BIG improvement!

Cheers Shortie, David is in contact with me occasionally, but recalls little these days - lot of water under the Bridge, new career, etc Barry the former Handsworth Supervisor confirmed some of the internal corridors were filled up with coffins and than sealed. Neither could recall the layout of...

Hi Rosie, Just popped out and visited KH/WL as forecast is for wet stuff again! Cold and damp today. Stonemasons are back in KH tidying up little bits of the cemetery Wall where the frost had got into their pointing. I noticed a few more trees have gone - Hooray! and some leaves but still some...

There are burials in Warstone Lane marked 'Birmingham University'. Many are just listed as 'Contract Burials' These are those bodies used by Medical school students -they share 1 between 2 Sept-April. Many people donate their bodies to assist medical research - helps research as opposed to...

1953 view into the Warstone lane catacomb 'circle' The church is still standing, and the large gated doorway centre top is the main entrance into the internal catacombs Further in was a crematorium style lift for coffins that was situated in the church - Lift machinery is still in place...

Warstone Lane Cemetery - Unmarked Public Graves at rear of the former Mint. Pic taken at P 1736 looking down hill. P 1582 is 5 graves ahead. there is another row of unmarked public graves alongside the wall - P1582 & 1736 are nex row in. These trees are self seeded following the reopening &...

Hi Mike, Saltley is the wrong side of the city for Bridge St west, but Birmingham was a great manufacturing city. Saltley area had car makers, train makers, steel works, gas & coke works, etc I know of friends whose forebears came from Waltham Abbey gunpowder mills to Witton to help set up and...

Deb, he would be buried in one of the city cemeteries. If you have a name and year it is possible to look up key Hill and Warstone Lane, otherwise it would be a case of emailing individuial cemeteries to enquire who has him. He would be in a grave that contains other non related people, so...